Mechanism to Avoid Loops in FAQ-Maintainers

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Tung-chiang Yang (tcyang@netcom.com)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:20:23 -0700 (PDT)

I wonder if this FAQ Maintainers mailing list can be equipped with some
kind of loop-preventing mechanism. Our buddy Will Bell bounced some
messages which his program believes to be spams back to this list,
and he is still subscribed to this list, so he bounces, bounces and
bounces, with our accounts being mailbombed as a byproduct.

I understand this is not directly related to FAQ maintaining, and I
am sorry for posting this. I suggest all subscribers of the FAQ Maintainers
mailing list move their procmail rules for E-mails from this list to the
beginning of their .procmailrc, at least before the rule(s) handling
unsolicited commercial E-mails and spams.

And do not forget to disable "vacation" for E-mails from this list.

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Forwarded message:
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:54:13 -0700
> Message-Id: <199704241954.MAA17905@mail6.netcom.com>
> From: wbb@netcom.com (Will Bell)
> Subject: Your message was rejected by spam-killer
>
> Dear correspondent:
>
> I was not able to read your recent email to me. Read on for the
> reasons why and what you can do to contact me.
>
> SPAM is a terrible thing which has invaded the net as of late. Every
> day I receive between 10 and 30 spam emails, many of which are very
> long and/or contain uuencoded pictures or attachments or other CRAP
> which, unfortunately, sits in my mailbox all day since I read mail at
> night.

> (deleted)

Tung-chiang Yang tcyang@netcom.com